The penultimate Rathole Radio before the gig on April 24th in Liverpool. Nerves are starting to rise but the main problem I had this week was the loss of hearing in one ear. I did the show with one ear but wasn’t feeling up to a live track I’m afraid. I was pleased to announce that we’ll be joined next time by fellow podcaster and musician Nick Tann though, listen out for that on April 17th. I also played some great tracks of varying styles for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!

34:31 – Fit & The Conniptions – Sweet Sister Starlight – CC BY-NC-SA – AKA Wayne Myers a London singer songwriter. I played a track from Bandcamp a little while ago and Wayne very kindly sent me his new CD in the post. The album will be released on May 23rd but you can pre-order the CD now and you get an immediate digital download copy. He’ll join us live on the show May 29th to talk about the new album and all that’s going on. Find out more at conniptions.org

48:05 – French Collective – Weather Report (by 0xb) – CC BY-SA Licensed – French (unsurprisingly) electro pop outfit. This from a compilation and the artist is 0xb. The collective website seems to be dead now, the track is from 2007, I hope they’re still going.

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Next show: Sunday April 17th 2011 at 9pm UK time

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Music Sources and Licensing: A few of the tracks in this show are from the artists own personal websites and don’t contain licensing information. That’s why they are listed as unknown. The individual licenses are listed next to each track, where known. If there is no license listed you must assume all rights are reserved on that song.